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World's Women At Century's End

November 17, 1996|By Mark Wukas.

Women in the Material World

Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel

Sierra Club Books, $35

A team of female photojournalists crisscrossed the world to examine the lives of women on the cusp of the 21st Century. What they found makes for absorbing reading about the worlds in which these women and their families live, their fears, their joys, their sorrows and their hopes for the future.